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Syria’s main Kurdish rebel group, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), confirmed Sunday it was fighting alongside other rebel forces against Islamic State (ISIS) in the besieged town of Kobane and other Kurdish areas.
It said it wanted to strengthen this alliance which was essential to defeating the jihadists.
Shiite rebels seeking to expand their territory across Yemen have clashed with Sunni tribesmen and Al-Qaeda fighters in violence that has left dozens dead, officials said Saturday.
Yemen has been dogged by political instability since an Arab Spring-inspired uprising forced veteran strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh from power in 2012.
A Kurdish official in Syrian Kurdistan’s Kobani town said Thursday that US-led airstrikes have successfully pushed back Islamic State IS insurgents from parts of the besieged Syrian town.
“The international coalition has fought ISIS more effectively during the last few days,” Nassen told AFP by telephone, using an alternative name for IS.
Shiite rebels who have been expanding their control in Yemen have clashed with al-Qaeda militants in the centre of the volatile country, leaving 12 dead, a security official said on Wednesday.
Five rebels, six suspected al-Qaeda militants and a civilian were killed late on Tuesday during the fighting in Rada in central Yemen, the security official and tribal sources said.
Yemeni rebels seized a strategic port city on Tuesday to widen their fast-expanding zone of control, hours after a new premier was named in a bid to defuse Yemen’s escalating political crisis.
And with the weakening of central authority, battered by the rebels’ seizure of Sanaa last month, southern separatists were stepping up their demands for independence.